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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 19th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Spy Tech: I see what you write

Two new techniques to spy on computer users have been revealed these days by two independent scientific studies conducted at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany. The researchers in California developed an algorithm that can estimate what a computer is writing by watching the hands move. The algorithm [...]

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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 19th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Two interesting tech demonstrations

I discovered two very interesting tech demonstrations at the TechEBlog which I had to post about. The first is a next generation destruction CG tech demonstration that looks ultra realistic. If they could implement something like that in games it would be awesome.
“Using particle-based tools, the Extreme Loading technology generates iterative visuals with the added [...]

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Categories: Cool, Entertainment

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 16th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Virtual Girlfriend Bed

I have seen my fair share of geeky stuff on the Internet and the Virtual Girlfriend definitely makes it straight to the top. Geeks don’t have girlfriends, that’s what people believe and while it sometimes may be true it more often than not is not, except for gay geeks maybe who tend to have boyfriends [...]

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Visible Body – Visualise your body

While this is a sort of biology tech online app, I think it’s one of the most awesome things ever! I wasn’t really fond of biology, but that was really due to the taxonomy part of it, the human body is a great thing to learn about.
Visible Body is a free, fully 3D system, that [...]

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Categories: Science

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 18th, 2006
  • Comments: 3

The Desktop of the Future

This is a video from the dynamic graphics project at the University of Toronto named: Keeping it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen in BumpTop. Big title, ain’t it ? What they did is project the concept of the normal desktop, the real one not the one from your computer to your computer by making it 3 dimensional. Files are shown as three dimensional items as well that can be placed on top of each other, sorted, deleted and manipulated manifold.

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Categories: Cool, Entertainment

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 25th, 2005
  • Comments: None

The Pong Clock

This is just to strange, someone build a clock that looks like the game Pong. The left site counts the hours while the right site counts the minutes. This means every minute the right site wins a point and every hours the left one does. Strange concept but great looking unique clock.

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Categories: Cool, Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 31st, 2005
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In 2020 every Korean household will have a robot

Beginning next year Koreans will have the option to buy their own personal robot for a price of 1000$ – 2000$. The robots have lots of functions, some include cleaning rooms, home monitoring and reading books.

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